A+ All bases covered!

Rating: 3/10 (1 August 2013)

This movie has it all. All the elements of an entirely predictable disaster movie that is! This one didn't miss a trick. A hero (Swaggering Charlie Hunnam from 'Sons of Anarchy')who is not only whinny and brooding but is also an under achiever, another plus. Best friend is killed. In this case his brother (Diego Klatenhoff). Now he's really motivated! Two very nerdy scientists,(Charlie Day and Burn Gorman) discover how to kill the monsters after an earlier demoralizing defeat and with only two giant WCF style robots left in the fleet. In the process they were forced to do business with Hannibal (Ron Pearlman)who runs a used monster body parts lot. The hero's love interest was a lovely Oriental(Rinko Kikuchi)who was teaching the robot pilots how to fight while strapped in the bot's head. She later joins Hunnam in the giant robot as co-pilot because two brains have to be linked together in order to control the Bot. No conversation necessary because they are "in" each other's brains. Idris Elba was the token Black guy and leader of the Bot fleet and step pa of Rinko we discovered as Hunnam explored her brain. The only human "kind of" bad guy was Chuck (Robert Kazinksky) but he also became a hero after seeing the error of his ways. The two lovebirds ejected themselves to the surface from the crippled robot after beating up the monsters in a battle at the bottom of the ocean. The only ethnic group not well represented were Hispanics. They'll take care of that in the sequel 'Pacific Rim Dos'. Special effects were very good and they didn't waste much time telling the familiar story. A good 75% of the movie was CG Bots and Monsters swinging at each other.